Frozen Food

<p>The Frozen Food industry was invented by the Birdseye company. And that company was started by a living breathing Birdseye; Clarence Birdseye.</p><br><p>Clarence Birdseye was a small, bespectacled New Yorker who lived a life somewhere between Buffalo Bill and Thomas Edison.</p><br><p>He came up with the idea for frozen food while starting a family in the barren wastes of North Eastern Canada, where he ate polar bears, skunks, lynx stewed in sherry, and horned owls.</p><br><p>He became a self made millionaire who invented not only the frozen food industry but also new kinds of lightbulbs, automatic whaling harpoons, and a whole new paper making process while living in the Colombian jungle. He died with more than two hundred patents in his name.</p><br><p>Our guest to tell the story of this remarkable inventor is Mark Kurlansky, author of <em>Birdseye</em> a biography of Clarence Birdseye.</p><br><p>Produced and Edited by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer: Charlotte Long.</p><br><p>For more History Hit content, subscribe to our newsletters <a href="historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_sou…; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p>

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